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Inchworm

Jenny and Ted

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Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 143

a chapter by chapter spoiler-free podcast covering Worm by Wildbow

every Tuesday & Friday wherever you can find podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Overcast, Podcast Republic, Spotify, YouTube, etc.)

get in touch at inchwormpodcast@gmail.com

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🇨🇦 Canada - books
03/08/2026
#77
🇫🇷 France - books
01/03/2025
#99

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1.x - "Cape Daddy"

Season 1 · Episode 8

Friday, February 28, 2025 • Duration 44:30

Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation 1.x.

Episode Notes:

Jenny is in uncharted terra-wormy
Being inside Danny’s head
Contrasting the two daddies
Taylor is heard but not seen
The mystery of Annette’s departure
Is Danny over- or under- playing his temper?
We count the ways a teenager might not want to tell her dad everything
He has no healthy way to deal with reasonable anger
The mystery of Taylor’s hospitalization
THEME ALERT
Scion’s origins are sus, as are the origins of all cape powers
Worm Wednesdays
whereisscionnow.com
Scion’s name
Other cape names

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1.6 - "Defined By Your Actions"

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 • Duration 45:59

Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation 1.6.

Episode Notes:

Ted’s Wildbow % complete
Tinker, Taylor
Armsmaster’s first impression
Untoward to be a Ward
“You’re telling the truth!”
Meeting your hero
Is Armsmaster secretly old or are all capes relatively young?
Between the awe and the manipulation there is a genuine connection here
Better to be a lone worm
Is Taylor really going to side with Armsmaster over these cool and fun teens?
Bakuda has joined the ABB
Tinkers are reconstructing a trope
Hot or not: the top two thirds of Armsmaster’s face
Predictions and names
Bonus: Daedalus theory

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1.5 - "People Thinking She's Bad"

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, February 21, 2025 • Duration 43:43

Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation 1.5.

Episode Notes:

Taylor makes use of extremely limited resources…
…that aren’t even related to her power!
Taylor can’t fly (yet)
Why isn’t Lung known to be a stronger cape?
Is there a Superman cape?
Did Taylor almost beat Lung herself?
We already have van sized monster dogs fighting an eight foot dragon man!!
The “children” are cool and fun
Gender theory of superpowers
Ted tries to get Jenny to power rank all the capes so far but c’mon she doesn’t know half their powers yet
Taylor doesn’t have a cape name yet (placeholder: Bug)
Taylor’s “shyness”
How are heroes and villains delineated?
Names and predictions

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1.4 - "Capable And Disposable"

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 • Duration 40:29

Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation 1.4.

Episode Notes:

Lung’s dragon morph
Would you rather fight one dragon-sized dragon or one hundred bug-sized bugs?
Taylor’s battle plan and bloodlust
Taylor’s inventory
Nice to have our hero initiate the fight
Taylor’s power came with an internal bug CPU
Dick Corner
Taylor’s rules of engagement
Will Taylor eventually use up all of the bugs?
Insects are ideal minions
Judgy Taylor strikes again
Predictions and names

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1.3 - "Gotta Have A Reason For Your Evil Activities"

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, February 13, 2025 • Duration 31:32

Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation 1.3.

Episode Notes:

Jenny did her homework
Ted apologizes and corrects the record about Brockton Bay’s location
Taylor is JUDGY about the residents of the Docks
(But it sounds so affordable!)
The exaggeratedness of the setting
Taylor sees … a gun!!!
Are we down with ABB?
Brockton Bay is a city in crisis
Is the PHQ just security theater?
Taylor’s finished costume
What makes a supervillain
Lung’s powers and (un)known unknowns
Who are The Children?

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1.2 - "Logistics Are So Satisfying"

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 • Duration 33:55

Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation 1.2. NOTE: Sorry about the background noise in this one.

Episode Notes:

Ted is confidently wrong about the location of Brockton Bay
Does Taylor enjoy bugs? (No)
Does Taylor have a lot of bugs? (Yes)
Is Taylor limited only by the number of bugs she can find, or also by the limits of her brain?
How Taylor is like we were as teenagers
Does Taylor have a killer instinct? (Reply hazy)
Speculation about how powers might make teenage violence and self-harm even worse
Is Taylor underrating “control (all) bugs”?
Taylor’s home and family and ex-best friend
A future for Taylor as a weaver
Taylor’s choice
Predictions corner
New segment: Cape Names!

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1.1 - "Better Than I Am"

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, February 7, 2025 • Duration 37:36

Jenny and Ted discuss Gestation 1.1.

Episode Notes:

What does it mean to be a cape in this world?
A close reading of the first two lines of Worm
A tiny scrap of cape lore and a big mass of bugs
Everyone loves a powerful underdog
Taylor’s power hasn’t solved her problems
The theme of control
Taylor is that jaded, loner kid who is still insecure
Will cape society be just like high school?
Worm’s YA setting
Bug proprioception
Taylor makes it worse
Cape justice
Taylor’s passivity: she feels she is moral for what she does not do
Jenny suggests how Taylor might retaliate against these awful bullies
Predictions corner

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0.0 - "Seems Kinda Evil"

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, January 30, 2025 • Duration 27:54

Before reading anything, Jenny and Ted discuss Worm generally and introduce the podcast. NOTE: We had some technical issues with the audio in this one that should be resolved before the next episode.

Episode Notes:

What is Worm?
Wait, Worm is HOW long?
Ted’s pitch for why you should read Worm
A quick introduction to Wildbow
Character-driven superpowers
Jenny introduces us to Taylor
“Capes”
Jenny imagines where the story will go
The 2011 superhero zeitgeist
Creator Chose Not To Use Content Warnings
Worm fic is like Avengers fic
Should this story have been called Bug?
Insect Aside vs. the Bug Bear
Ted names a favorite cape and Jenny guesses her power
How you can (optionally) read along
There are 2+ fan audiobooks of Worm

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https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow

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14.1 - "Radical Friendship"

Season 1 · Episode 143

Friday, July 31, 2026 • Duration 01:15:21

Jenny and Ted discuss Prey 14.1.

Episode Notes:

Jenny loved this chapter
Brian probably doesn't sleep anymore
Jenny's less worried about him being evil, though
Undersiders vs. Travelers vibes
Who has the deadliest secrets??
Cherish doesn't say anything about Lisa...
Cherish isn't very good at this
Lies Cherish might have told
Jenny was almost right!
What's the Siberian's deal??
If you could project any body you wanted...
Taylor's role in the upcoming operation
Siberians' living the murder hobo fantasy
The Unravelers vs. Battery
Siberian vs. the Birdcage
Siberian has three chapters to live
Aisha's only seen unhealthy romantic relationships
So has Alec, but he's taken different lessons from it
Who was Alec sleeping with?
Regent and rape culture
Who's writing the Regent CNC fanfiction?
What if Aisha and Alec were best friends
Possibly Bitch and Taylor have made some progress here
Lisa vs. Taylor on ways to connect to Bitch
What if Brian used Amy's power...on Amy?
Taylor meets Hyperbole and a Half
What do we owe to each other, Taylor?
Taylor and radical friendship
Finally, some acknowledgments of reality

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13.x - "They Could Work Together"

Season 1 · Episode 142

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • Duration 01:22:21

Jenny and Ted discuss Snare 13.x.

Episode Notes:

Even before the summary we are discussing whether Emily War Crimes is a villain, in several senses of the word
Evil ends vs. evil means
Given what else we’ve read, it’s tough to say she’s just being paranoid
Can she control you?
The kind of “hero” Taylor has come to expect
Emily’s career so far must cast a shadow on her present feelings
The (we hope) PR hit from obvious war crimes
Parapolitical theory
Why can’t we all just get along?
Self-justifying ends
Do they need to beat the Nine or just survive them?
Emily’s plan is so bad and self-aggrandizing we compare her to Colin
Emily prefers inhuman technology to all-too-human capes
Metaphor blindness
The plan is doomed if only because it was fully explained
Mid-episode predictions
LGBT = Legend Gay Blue Triumvirate
At least Legend feels guilty when he’s bad
Alexandria, Siberian, Clockblocker, and who or what gets to be most invulnerable
A world without Hero
Everything’s coming up Siberian
We’re gonna see Ol’ Jackie Slash wriggle his way out of this jam
Battery will be depleted, er, defeated
No plague (Bonesaw had her chance in Arc 12 anyway)
Training montage!
A grab bag of smaller topics
Emily sings “Little Capes”
The Wards need a youth pastor
Emily doesn’t mind other normals
Oh so the system that gives someone apparently unaccountable power is leading to this sort of thing, huh?
Emily bears witness
Is having people that matter to you fertile ground for cultivating ethics?
What’s her backstory??
Emily sees the live possibility of a sudden heroic sacrifice
The purpose of government
The irony of Emily not being a cape

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